two hitchhikers, the Family’s Ella Jo Bailey and Patricia Krenwinkel, caught his eye.6 He gave them a quick lift. When he saw them again soon afterward, he picked them up a second time, taking them back to his place for “milk and cookies.” History hasn’t recorded what kind of cookies they enjoyed, or whether those cookies were in fact sex, but whatever the case, the girls told Manson about the encounter. They weren’t aware of Wilson’s clout in the music industry—but Manson was, and he insisted on going back to the house with them.
